Carpet-beater.



PATENTED SEPT. 1-, 1908.

A. W. ANDREWS.

CARPET BEATER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PAZIEN T OFFICE.

ALFRED W. ANDREWS, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ANDREWS WIRE & IRON WORKS, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

CARPE T-BE ATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Application filed January 7, 1908. Serial No. 409,693.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED W. ANDREWS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car et-Beaters, of which the following is a speoi ication.

In the accompanying drawings. Figure 1 is a face representation of the beater. Fig. 2 is an edge view.

The frame of the carpet beater is made of a single piece of wire, and the ends are connected to the handle 1 From the handle the branches 2 and 3 are formed with the coils 4 and 5 respectively, and from the coils extend some distance, and are united by the binding 6, and from the binding diverge into the rounded ends 7 and 8, and are united by the twist 9. From the twist the branches 10 and 11 diverge into a center loop 12 through which the branches 2 and 3 pass, thereby binding the rounded end to the branches. By this make up of the free end of the beater the branches forming it are distributed to cover a given surface and are arranged in the lengthwise direction of the beater, at substantially right angles and diagonally thereto.

This beater will do effective work as the greatest weight is at the free end and the surface is broad.

The coils 4 and 5 impart flexibility to the beater so that there will be no j arfelt by the hand of the user when using the beater.

I claim as my invention.

A carpet beater comprising a handle, a single wire having its ends connected to the handle, the center portion of the wire formed into two side loops and a center loop, the point of connection of the side loops and center loop formed by a twist, and the wire forming the side loops passing through the center loop.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ALFRED W. ANDREWS.

Witnesses:

A. O. BEHEL, E. D. E. N. BEHEL. 

